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HimmlerWasRight88 on scored.co
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Calm your tits.
This decision is about a specific business model that they had to allow users to borrow more copies of a book than the physical copies that Archive owned. The court simply said that this was illegal: if Archive has purchased 5 physical copies of a book then they can lend only 5 at a time, just like any other library.
The court didn't say that Archive needs to shut down.
In fact, the books that were freely available for download were already obviously violating copyright laws. If they had wanted to enforce that, they could have done it long before this lawsuit.
If Archive.org decides to remove the freely available content then it's up to them deciding to do so. There isn't a SWAT team going to their offices.
It is possible that after this decision they'll cave and start removing books on copyright claims, but this is the same for every website in existence. Always save all of your books in your physical hard drive. So that any one of us can re-upload them anytime, anywhere.
You cannot stop the internet.
And to celebrate that Archive is still up, here some links to some good books:
Hmm... one of the books that was in my library
"Day of deceit : the truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor" i cannot burrow anymore, luckily i did download a PDF of this book some years ago and have it in my harddrive
so this decision to stop burrowing books is already taking place... i'd still recommend archiving shit on your portable solid state drive if you can afford it, nothing's is going to last forever but thank you for the links.
Why did you say solid state drive?
It is well known that hard disk drives last longer and are more reliable long term. The advantage of solid state drives is that they read much faster, and this is why they are so common today, but in terms of data longevity the older technology of hard drives (HDD, with the spinning disk, to be clear) is still better.
In any case you should have 2 copies in two separate disks. And if you want to be even more secure, transfer them to new disks every few years.
Lastly what you can do is put your stuff in an *encrypted archive* and then upload it to a Google or Microsoft cloud. Big tech will take care of your file for you and because of the encryption they won't know what's in there.
This decision is about a specific business model that they had to allow users to borrow more copies of a book than the physical copies that Archive owned. The court simply said that this was illegal: if Archive has purchased 5 physical copies of a book then they can lend only 5 at a time, just like any other library.
The court didn't say that Archive needs to shut down.
In fact, the books that were freely available for download were already obviously violating copyright laws. If they had wanted to enforce that, they could have done it long before this lawsuit.
If Archive.org decides to remove the freely available content then it's up to them deciding to do so. There isn't a SWAT team going to their offices.
It is possible that after this decision they'll cave and start removing books on copyright claims, but this is the same for every website in existence. Always save all of your books in your physical hard drive. So that any one of us can re-upload them anytime, anywhere.
You cannot stop the internet.
And to celebrate that Archive is still up, here some links to some good books:
[Dalton's collection](https://archive.org/details/dr-thomas-dalton-debating-the-holocaust/Adolf%20Hitler%20-%20Mein%20Kampf%20%28Dalton%20Translation%29/)
[Hitler's Revolution (2021 edition)](https://archive.org/details/richard-tedor-hitlers-revolution)
[The Law of Blood](https://archive.org/details/chapoutot-johann-the-law-of-blood-thinking-and-acting-as-ns-2018)
[Blood and Soil](https://archive.org/details/a-new-nobility-of-blood-and-soil-by-richard-walther-darre-1930)
[The Culture of Critique](https://archive.org/details/thecultureofcritiquekevinmacdonald)
[Jewish Supremacism](https://archive.org/details/JewishSupremacism_203)
[White Identity](https://archive.org/details/jared-taylor-white-identity-racial-consciousness-in-the-21st-century)
"Day of deceit : the truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor" i cannot burrow anymore, luckily i did download a PDF of this book some years ago and have it in my harddrive
so this decision to stop burrowing books is already taking place... i'd still recommend archiving shit on your portable solid state drive if you can afford it, nothing's is going to last forever but thank you for the links.
It is well known that hard disk drives last longer and are more reliable long term. The advantage of solid state drives is that they read much faster, and this is why they are so common today, but in terms of data longevity the older technology of hard drives (HDD, with the spinning disk, to be clear) is still better.
In any case you should have 2 copies in two separate disks. And if you want to be even more secure, transfer them to new disks every few years.
Lastly what you can do is put your stuff in an *encrypted archive* and then upload it to a Google or Microsoft cloud. Big tech will take care of your file for you and because of the encryption they won't know what's in there.